International Workshop ““Mobilities” in the Black Sea Region”: Presentation in Bucharest the activities of the Research Institute of Urban History

International Workshop ““Mobilities” in the Black Sea Region” took place in Bucharest (Romania) 20-21 May 2016.

The workshop was organized by New Europe College (Romania) и University of St. Gallen (Switzerland). The workshop brought together more than 20 researchers from institutions of Romania, Germany, Switzerland, Greece, Hungary, the USA, Turkey, Italy, Ukraine, Georgia, Moldova, Armenia and Russia. 

The workshop was organized within the framework of the Pontica Magna Fellowship Programme in partnership with the Center for Governance and Culture in Europe (St. Gallen University) and is supported by VolkswagenStiftung.

The organizers of the workshop proposed to look at the Black Sea Region as a space of motion, movement, migration, transfer, circulation, flow, etc. By employing this relatively new concept – “mobility” (which does not aim to hierarchize the research object, but to ask for actors, trajectories, borders, or communication) –, different layers of dynamics in the Black Sea Region could be analyzed, aspects that usually remain little visible when a more “classical” approach focused on politics, economics, or religion is used.

Within the framework of the workshop Igor Lyman and Victoria Konstantinova reported about the topic «"Mobilities" of "Russian" Cities of the Black Sea and the Sea of Azov area at the period of the Russian Empire: studying by the Research Institute of Urban History». Also, Berdyansk scholars took part in the round table “Academic Mobility in the Countries around the Black Sea. Opportunities and Challenges” (Moderator: Constantin Ardeleanu, Romania).